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State officials dispatched teams of health workers to Cape Cod and issued new safety guidance amid worrisome signs Tuesday that COVID cases are on the rise across the renowned summer playground.
Despite having one of the most vaccinated populations in the state, Cape Cod now has the highest rate of new COVID cases in Massachusetts. Health officials are battling an outbreak in Provincetown that has infected at least 132 people since July 1 most of them vaccinated as well as a cluster in a Yarmouth nursing home, where as many as 33 residents and staff are infected, many of them
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More than 10 employees and residents have tested positive for COVID-19 at Maplewood at Mayflower Place in recent days, Bruce Murphy, health director for the town of Yarmouth, said Friday.
Most of the cases have occurred in vaccinated individuals who have not fallen seriously ill, he said.
“Right now, it’s just been a mild illness.”
The nursing home cases coincide with a spate of positive, but also mild, cases of coronavirus among vaccinated people who were tested recently at the Outer Cape Health Services office in Provincetown.
“We could just be at the beginning of seeing a resurgence,” Murphy said.